As many of you know there are binary blobs in the vanilla kernel. This doesn't conform with FSF standards for free distros. So BLAG is going to have a kernel with all of these bits removed. As part of that process, I've been making cleaned versions of the kernel source tarball. It was once named linux-blagged, now linux-libre, but may have another name in the near future (open to ideas).

Anyway, if you build your own kernel, please use this instead of the vanilla kernel.org kernel and let me know how it fares:

Does this leave us with the open source driver? Also, they announced open source drivers, have they managed to come out yet?

Just to be clear here, what is being removed is not the binary driver that ATI distributes but bits that are in the kernel which then support things like 3d. I have this card myself and the new 2.6.24.2.1 works fine, but without accelerated 3d (which is mostly used for games or whatever--you dont need it to surf the net, edit video, write documents, etc).

In sum, Alexandre Oliva did a remarkable job setting up and maintaining a kernel-libre repository for Fedora (which BLAG uses). He berated FESCO (or whatever the rh board thing is) til they decided the blobs were against their stated goals (roughly) and now this is happening upstream at LKML.

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